The article describes German and Czech toponymy in the cadaster of the town of Lučany nad Nisou. Special attention is paid to the development of Czech toponymy after 1945 in connection with the post-war revision and standardization processes. Furthermore, the article analyses the causes of the discrepancy between contemporary “living” and official toponymy of the cadaster.
The article deals with the oronym Královka – a name of a well-known and attractive tourist destination in Jizerské hory (the Jizera Mountains/Isergebirge). This oronym shows how difficult it was to find proper Czech equivalents for former German toponyms in areas inhabited by German ethnicity before 1945. The oronym Královka does not correspond with a semantic motivation of the former name Königshöhe, which is of deantroponymic origin. That is why an official name Nekras was proposed in 1950’s. This name with an unclear etymology is evidenced in 16th century; however, it has not caught on.
The article deals with the Czech pronunciation of the river name Nisa, an important river in Northern Bohemia. Besides standard palatalized pronunciation [ňisa], also non-standard non-palatalized pronunciation [nisa] occurs. The main goal of the article is to describe their mutual relation and their distribution. The data come from a) questionnaires, and b) an analysis of chosen Czech Radio (Český rozhlas) programs. The analysis of radio programs was based on a demo version of the platform being developed for automatic transcription and sophisticated access to historical audio archive of the Czech Radio. Palatalized, i.e. standard pronunciation is dominant in broadcasting. Questionnaires show that non-palatalized pronunciation occurs in local every-day speech, especially among people over 30 years. It is therefore a question, whether this pronunciation should be included into the standardization as a local, colloquial variant.
The article focuses on some contemporary names used by car manufacturers. In addition to the basic onymic functions, these names are characterized particularly by the associative/connotative function, i.e. they also include appellative meanings. However, some of the described names have such an unusual form that it might complicate decoding these meanings. Besides that, a special attention is paid to names of contemporary models produced by Škoda Auto, a. s.
The article focuses on a specific type of minor place-names which we call quasi-deantroponymic and quasi-deapellative. Such minor place-names are a result of mistranslations which are caused by the fact that the name-giver considers onymic components in the former name as apellative ones, and vice versa. The analysis is based on minor place-names of the Jizera Mountains (Jizerské hory / Isergebirge in former Sudeten) where Czech minor place-name system was developing besides the German one from the end of the 19th century. Quasi-deantroponymic and quasi-deapellative names are connected with spontaneous Bohemization of former German minor place-names. Most of such mistranslated names did not survive, only few of them (e.g. Klingerloch – Zvonkové údolí) remain a part of today’s toponymy.
The article concerns the Lužická Nisa (Lausitzer Neisse, Nysa ŁuŜycka), which is an important river in Northern Bohemia. The author describes its names and names of its spring rivers from the diachronic and synchronic point of view. There were many variant names for all the streams the article deals with. Synonymy is connected especially with the Bílá Nisa river which was also considered as a headstream of the Lužická Nisa for some time. The author presents 14 names for this river which is only 10 kilometers long. Today’s standardized hydronymy puts stress both on unambiguous and unique identification but also on historical and communication aspects.
The article focuses on specific univerbated lexical units which are formed by desuffixation on an adjective in the initial noun phrase. This process leads to two different kinds of neologisms: lexical units having a new, discrete form (such as mobil), and lexical units with the form of an existing lexeme (such as bronz). The latter type reflects both semantic and word-forming processes. The author presents number of neologisms of both types, and discusses their meaning, use and frequency.
The article focuses on manifestation of folk etymology in both standardized and non-standardized urbanonymy of Liberec town (a county town in Northern Bohemia). Reetymologization processes may or may not influence a surface structure of the name. Reetymologization with formal changes covers three sub-categories: a) false reetymologization as a result of bohemization of German urbanonyms; b) false reetymologization in the German urbanonym and translation of the new structure into Czech; c) intentional reetymologization based on a language pun. Reetymologization without formal changes is classified into two sub-categories: a) semantic reinterpretation; b) weakening of commemorative onymical function.
On an example of naming one specific locality (minor settlement and the hill Bramberk/ Krásný in the cadastre of the town Lučany nad Nisou in Northern Bohemia), the paper deals with quantitative and qualitative changes that took place in the toponymy of former Sudeten during the 20th century. A special attention is paid to official interventions in the toponymy within post-war revision of place names as well as within later processes of standardization. The paper also analyses relations between the official and folk toponymy, and spatial fixation of toponyms. Last but not least, conditions of conservation of German place names in the contemporary Czech toponymy are discussed.
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Tato kapitola ilustruje na příkladu pojmenování konkrétní lokality (místní části a vrchu Bramberk/Krásný na katastru obce Lučany nad Nisou) kvalitativní a kvantitativní změny, které v toponymii bývalých Sudet nastaly v průběhu 20. století. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována úředním zásahům do toponymie jak v rámci poválečné revize zeměpisného názvosloví, tak v rámci pozdějších standardizačních procesů. S tím dále souvisí i analýza vztahu úřední a lidové toponymie a prostorové fixace toponym. Kapitola si rovněž všímá podmínek zachování německých toponym (tzn. formálně adaptovaných) v současném českém zeměpisném názvosloví.
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